Low-key service in Meru as Bishop Silas Njiru buried in Italy
Felicity Kendi displays a picture of Bishop Emeritus Silas Silvius Njiru, who succumbed to Covid-19 in Italy, during a funeral service at St Joseph Cathedral in Meru County on April 30, 2020. PHOTO | CHARLES WANYORO | NATION MEDIA GROUP
Bishop Salesius Mugambi, held a low key funeral mass, which lasted only one hour and ran concurrently with the burial in Italy presided over by a solitary priest.
An elaborate ceremonial burial inside the cathedral’s crypt — a stone chamber beneath the floor of the church — will be conducted next Tuesday.
Meru Governor Kiraitu Murungi eulogised the bishop as a very wise man of high integrity.
In his heyday as the head of the Meru diocese, Bishop Emeritus Silas Silvius Njiru led a life full of pomp and colour.
Always happy to mingle with people, the bishop at times would traverse the then sprawling diocese in single day, for mass in Mandera, Wajir and Garissa and then spare time for evening prayers at his residence in Meru.
